[PEN-L:11295] Re: [Fwd: "How US Trained Butchers of Timor"]

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Note the part about Larry Summers therein.
>
> Deborah Sklar ... cites a blueprint called The East Asian Miracle,
> written by US
> Treasury
> Secretary Lawrence Summers, in which he urges governments to 'insulate'
> themselves from 'pluralist pressures' and to suppress trade unions. This,
> she says, became a primary Kopassus role during the years of training by the
> United States.


I presume that this was the East Asia study Larry commissioned while
at the World Bank and that came out in book from as _The East Asian
Miracle_ (Washington: World Bank: 1994?).

If so, this is a really weird reading of what seemed to me a pretty
good book by Nancy Birdsall and company...


Brad DeLong